Department of Anesthesiology and Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Anesthesiology. 2022 Jun 1;136(6):888-900. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000004207.
In this first memorial lecture after John Severinghaus's death in 2021, the author traces his journey as a physician-scientist, using the framework of the hero's journey as described by the author Joseph Campbell 40 to 50 yr ago, and parallels that journey to his own. The author discusses how each were gadgeteers: Severinghaus in a creative engineering way, while the author's approach was asking simple questions translating basic research in pain from animals to humans. The classic hero's journey of departure to achieve a goal, then trials, transformation, and finally, returning with benefits to the individual and others is translated to the common physician-scientist career with motivations progressing from "I will show" to "I wonder if" to "I wonder why." Critical to this journey is self-questioning, openness to new ideas, and realizing that progress occurs through failure as much as success.
在 2021 年约翰·西弗森（John Severinghaus）去世后的第一次纪念演讲中，作者追溯了他作为一名医师科学家的历程，使用约瑟夫·坎贝尔（Joseph Campbell） 40 到 50 年前描述的英雄之旅的框架，并将这段旅程与自己的旅程进行了比较。作者讨论了他们俩如何都是 Gadgeteers：西弗森以创造性的工程方式，而作者的方法是提出简单的问题，将基础研究从动物转化到人类身上。从离开到实现目标，然后是考验、转变，最后带着个人和他人的利益回归的经典英雄之旅，被转化为常见的医师科学家职业，其动机从“我将展示”进展到“我想知道是否”，再到“我想知道为什么”。这个旅程的关键是自我质疑、对新想法的开放，以及认识到进步既是通过成功，也是通过失败实现的。
